I was at the Communications Academy in Seattle all weekend along with Jim Fenstermaker and SMs Ed Bruette, WWA and Doug Rich, ID. The event was sold out at 400 +, double from the previous year. The trip report will follow. I also did not get a single complaint or question about the bandwidth proposal. Comments were very positive about the ARRL. It was encouraging to see lots of new licensees, mostly Techs, who were interersted and engaged in Amateur Radio and Emergency Communications. I'll be back in the office tomorrow as long as Southwest Airlines does its part. 73, Harold Harold Kramer, WJ1B Chief Operating Officer ARRL - ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio 225 Main Street Newington , CT 06111 860 594 0220 www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org/> ________________________________ From: Joel Harrison [mailto:w5zn@arrl.org] Sent: Sun 4/1/2007 3:04 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: What are you hearing I'm curious what you are hearing now about our bandwidth subset proposal to the FCC at in-person events. My email has now been reduced to only those that are not ARRL members that are still complaining about things in general (incentive licensing, elimination of Morse for licensing, etc) not the specifics of the proposal. This weekend, I attended the AES Superfest in Milwaukee with Dick Isely. You will receive my trip report soon, but I want to tell you there were about 1000 attending and not one, not one single person even mentioned the proposal. All I received were positive all around comments about what we're doing. I even brought up the topic of regulation by bandwidth at the ARRL forum, where we had around 120 attending, and not one person had any comment or complaints about it. I know Bill Edgar was at Timonium this weekend. I talked to Bill last night and he had no complaints, only a couple of questions about the proposal. Bill Cross was there and conducted a forum and Bill reports that the subject was not raised there. One thing is obvious; the comments of substance have actually been supportive of the original proposal. Where were these guys before! Dave, Chris and I will be evaluating where we are with this matter and will report shortly. So, I'm curious as to what you are hearing at your eyeball events. 73 Joel W5ZN